Jose Napoleon Duarte

Jose Napoleon Duarte Fuentes (23 November 1925-23 February 1990) was President of El Salvador from 1 June 1984 to 1 June 1989, succeeding Alvaro Magana and preceding Alfredo Cristiani. Duarte was a Christian Democratic Party of El Salvador member, and his government was responsible for CIA-backed abuses and massacres of the civilian population by security forces and the death squads linked to them during the Salvadoran Civil War.

Biography
Jose Napoleon Duarte Fuetes was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador in 1925, and he studied at the University of Notre Dame in the United States. He co-founded the Christian Democratic Party of El Salvador in 1960, and he supported the reformist military coup of 15 October 1979, continuing to owrk with the military junta even after the parties to the left, notably the Socialists and Communists, broke away in 1980 to form an oppositional left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). During the ensuing Salvadoran Civil War of 1981-1992, his dependence on military support continued even in his second term in office, which he served as an elected President largely because the FMLN parties had boycotted the elections. He was unable to mediate in the war, or to stop the human rights abuses of the military and its associated death squads. Duarte left office in 1989, and he died a year later.